Easter eggs and matzo balls

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Title:

Easter eggs and matzo balls

Author:

Emaus, Janie, author.

Langdo, Bryan, illustrator.

Summary:

In this humorous and endearing picture book, blending both Easter and Passover, a young boy and his stepsister realize celebrating together (or hunting together for Easter Eggs and the Afikoman) makes the holidays even better. -- Provided by publisher.

Audience:

Ages 3-6.

General Note:

Includes recipes.

Includes a glossary of Passover and Easter terms.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Genre:

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Easter Bunny -- Juvenile fiction.

Easter eggs -- Juvenile fiction.

Matzo balls -- Juvenile fiction.

Stepfamilies -- Juvenile fiction.

Interfaith families -- Juvenile fiction.

Easter -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Langdo, Bryan,

Publisher:

Sky Pony Press,

Publication Date:

2023

ISBN:

9781510769229

Publication Information:

New York : Sky Pony Press, [2023]

Call Number:

P EMAUS

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

To: The Easter Bunny
From: Michael

I've always celebrated Easter, but my new stepsister, Anna, celebrates Passover. I want her to have something special in the Golden Egg when you bring it. If I think of something, I'll let you know.

While waiting for an answer, Michael annoys Anna by following her around hoping for inspiration. But Anna has her own problem: her Passover items are missing.

Each time she can't find something, Michael has an "aha" moment and is certain he has discovered what to put in the egg . . . only to hear back from the Easter Bunny that the item won't fit.

In the end, Michael does more than find something special to put inside the Golden Egg--he saves Anna's favorite part of the Passover seder.

In this humorous and endearing picture book, blending both Easter and Passover, a young boy and his stepsister realize celebrating together (or hunting together for Easter Eggs and the Afikoman) makes the holidays even better.

Easter Eggs and Matzo Balls includes a glossary of Easter and Passover terms and concludes with recipes of Anna and Michael's favorite holiday foods ready for children to replicate in their own kitchens.

Author Notes

Janie Emaus is the author of the picture book Latkes for Santa Claus and the novel The Time Traveling Matchmaker . Her essays and stories have been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and websites. She resides in Winnetka, California, where she celebrates both Passover and Easter in the spring and Hanukkah and Christmas in winter. Her blended family is the inspiration for her stories.

Bryan Langdo has illustrated more than forty books for children, including Latkes for Santa Claus and Tornado Slim and the Magic Cowboy Hat , which he also wrote. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, their two teenagers, three cats, and three dogs.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In this holiday story featuring a white-presenting blended family, Michael, who celebrates Easter, wants Passover, which this year falls at the same time, to be extra special for new stepsister Anna. But Anna is preoccupied: she can't find her family's Passover belongings, there's no matzo in the house, and the stores are sold out. Cartooned images by Langdo show Michael dispatching a series of emails to the Easter Bunny, asking it to ensure that something special arrives for Anna via the golden egg prize of the Easter egg hunt. The story's threads don't quite come together--it's not clear why the Easter Bunny appears to have taken the family's Passover supplies, nor how the one tiny piece of matzo that's revealed inside the golden egg is going to solve the family's seder supply problem. But the step-siblings seem fully bonded--"Wherever the matzo is, we'll find it together," Emaus writes in Anna's voice--and that may be enough. Recipes and a glossary conclude. Ages 3--6. (Jan.)